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Related The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER It was an OK shot. He could have made it. He tried his best but couldn't get it to go. Time was runn... GORDAN GIRICEK I feel like a million dollars don't you? ... Good, Lets go get some. TERRY PRATCHETT Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the histor... COLIN FARRELL my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit... ERIC RIPERT Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light... N.D. WILSON Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wr... NICK HARKAWAY I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked wher... BEVERLY CLEARY He tried to throw harder and harder, and his pitches straightened out and were up in the zone. There... DAVE PANO Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books. UFUOMA APOKI That was the most eerie feeling that I ever had in my life. He had it set up for bondage. There were... DELMA COLLINS He was standing by the edge of a small pool- not more than ten feet from side to side- in a wood. Th... C.S. LEWIS When Lofton came into the dugout, he said it was hard to see anything that had any kind of break to ... BRETT MYERS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO When he tried to stand up, it was like his feet were frozen to the floor. ANITA HERNANDEZ The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in... DEYTH BANGER Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans, August 15, 2016 PETRA HERMANS His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was go... MARYAM SCHONBECK When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th... MICHAEL ENDE Terry Anderson was held six years in a hole in Beirut. He tried to get Arab newspaper clippings from... PATRICK MOYNIHAN It was fortunate to have that restart. My car was probably the best it had been, and his car was pro... 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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER If he had it at all, it was at the highest point. But as we were coming back to the ground, I had it... MARCUS HAMILTON As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone woul... C.S. LEWIS until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Vampires have a plan to take over the world?" I asked. I felt a bit dumb, gasping in surprise at... EMILY MCKAY The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS He got hit in the jaw and it hurt all the way up to his ear. He was having some pain and some headac... DOUG LUKE As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all ... ERMA BOMBECK As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all... ERMA BOMBECK The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON This project was approved before Terry Johnson was mayor. When Terry lived in the house (on Barnwell... LOREN RITTER I was known as 'Ray, Head of Security' in the bookstores and stuff where he was signing books. I jus... JOHNNY DEPP If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The holy books of all religions are powerful books,not because they are religious books,but because ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We really had to look around. They were all down in the basement. He wasn't one to toot his own horn... BRIAN GRAY Tyson was an interesting experience, just because he was a lot of fun to play, because he was the ty... JOEL RIET It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read. KATARINA BIVALD People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair. J.D. SALINGER Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of... JOSEPH HELLER It helps us a lot. The sad thing is, the last game he played before he got sick (vs. Oakland, Jan. 2... BRYCE DREW And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a... DAVID HERBERT DONALD He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him mo... K.J. PARKER Adrian was a man who, in certain respects, could be seen as slightly less than average. He was sligh... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There was a mixture there and it was a rather pleasant mixture, and I think it helped him a lot in t... MICHAEL PALIN Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI My political foes could not give any sufficient proof of the accusations and have tried to hide the ... ALBERTO FUJIMORI In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... I hate cats." Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his... TERRY PRATCHETT We got the best doctors we could find because I had to know for an absolute certainty that there was... JACK MESI This (injury) is proof he was standing up when he was hit and that the vehicle was coming from the r... DEAN HAWLEY It was an emotional rollercoaster. We had that hope one time and then the next time we had bad news.... JUDY SHACKELFORD There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO He tried to act like he was happy for us and smiled, but you could tell it was eating him up inside.... BRAD AUSMUS He tried to act like he was happy for us and smiled, but you could tell it was eating him up inside,... BRAD AUSMUS God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Terry worked hard in the business, and in his day, he was a very good worker who could work a gimmic... JJ DILLON He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creat... LEO TOLSTOY She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER The best thinking is done in solitude not in turmoil. APURVA GAGLANI Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The best teacher worries, the best teacher cares, it is the children who will laugh.
If the teacher ... APURVA GAGLANI The role of a teacher begins when he or she leaves for school early in the morning and comes in cont... APURVA GAGLANI The best gift that a person can lift is the life of his own choice, but that should make a real diff... ANUJ SOMANY Teachers who do not worry about children, who do not care about children can never ensure the childr... APURVA GAGLANI The best teacher is one in whose presence there is never a case of ragging and bullying. APURVA GAGLANI Promise yourself the best is yet to come. DARIUSH YOUKHANEH There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl w... CHARLES DICKENS He has probably been a little bit sharper this year. But his velocity was there when he needed it, h... JOE MADDON He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never come back any more... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I guess he had some emotions he wanted to get off his chest. He was just skipping down the Yellow Br... DELONTE WEST He was tall—6’ 3” or so—with haunting green eyes that seemed to smolder despite his lazy smi... KELLY ORAM For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reaso... STEPHEN R. DONALDSON The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a librarian was a mouser in musty books... MELVIL DEWEY were in Japan the year before, and he had always had [sic] hoped there would be an earthquake that h... GUTENBERG Pain lanced through his neck. He gasped and his eyes flew open; Simon was sitting up on him, staring... CASSANDRA CLARE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH The only question that got any traction was when he asked Martin what he did. Martin tersely replied... SCOTT MEYER He's not all that verbal on the field. But when we needed big plays down the stretch, he was there f... AVERY CUTSHAW It was phenomenal. We were on an isolated part of the island. Nothing to do. Just basketball. It was... ERIC MUSSELMAN
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TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT